[Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

Hin-Tak Leung hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 21 14:57:14 CEST 2006


Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:56 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
<snipped>
>> gannet% locale -ck LC_PAPER
>> LC_PAPER
>> height=297
>> width=210
>> paper-codeset="ISO-8859-1"

> BTW, on my FC4 system:
> 
> $ locale -ck LC_PAPER
> LC_PAPER
> height=279
> width=216
> paper-codeset="UTF-8"

297/210 is A4 and 279/216 is letter (in mm's). Europe/US difference.
(where I am, I should have en_GB instead of en_US on FC5, so I better
go and fix my box..).

HT



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